ApartmentsChris ThomsonTue 09 Jun 26
Adelaide Parklands 10-Storey Apartment Tower Waved Ahead
A planned 10-storey apartment building envisaged to have uninterrupted views of the verdant Adelaide parklands has been approved after impressing South Australia’s state architect.
If built as approved on May 27 by SA’s State Commission Assessment Panel, developer Whitmore Minuzzo’s project on the fringe of Adelaide’s CBD will comprise 44 apartments.
Proposed for a 2424sq m site at 178 East Terrace, the tower includes a two-storey podium and a penthouse level that recedes from East Terrace.
Each apartment of the Enzo Caroscio Architecture-designed project would have a balcony or courtyard.
In a letter to SA’s Department for Housing and Urban Development ahead of the panel’s approval meeting, government architect Kirsteen Mackay said she backed “the quality of internal planning and residential amenity achieved across the proposed dwellings”.
“I support the proposed built form composition comprising podium, mid and upper-sections and the approach to reducing visual bulk through articulated three to four-storey elements, recesses and setbacks that support a building in the round,” she said.
The apartment mix includes 27 three-bedroom units, 13 of which would have two living rooms. There will be nine two-bedroom apartments, and eight four-bedroom apartments, each with two living rooms.
The development has been approved for a two-level basement carpark with space for 108 cars and 68 bicylces.
Nearly 80 per cent of the apartments would have a dual aspect, allowing for natural cross-ventilation, while 95 per cent of them are anticipated to receive more than three hours of natural sunlight a day.
More than 40 per cent of the apartments would face north toward the parklands that is across East Terrace from the project.
The project would rise on the site of a former Christian Brothers early learning centre.
Whitmore Minuzzo was contacted for comment for this story.
